Australian vegetable businesses are changing dramatically, with structures changing from small competing farms to internationally competitive supply chains. With this change industry leaders and business professional need to alter their thinking in this new and ever changing environment.

The ‘Young Vegetable and Potato Grower Tour to New Zealand’ has taken a core group of young growers and provided them with the framework to appreciate the similarities between their own objectives and those of vegetable growers in New Zealand enabling them to have a better level of appreciation for possibilities presented by globalisation. The expanded mindset will encourage an outward looking and thinking group of growers who will be willing to pursue export market opportunities through strategic partnerships and alliances as well as have the ability to influence the attitude of their peer group.